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Pleat making Tottenham tick

Tottenham Hotspur 3 Everton 0

By Keith Pike

October 6 2003, 1:00am, The Times

HE HAS NOT RULED HIMSELF OUT of the job, he refuses to rule himself in, but the more that David Pleat tries to say nothing meaningful about the possibility of succeeding Glenn Hoddle as manager of Tottenham Hotspur, the louder the players seem to be speaking up on his behalf.

The club’s directors, of which he is one, will sit down this week and “tick the boxes” as they begin the process of identifying the person they want. “Far too many clubs pick a manager without thinking about all sorts of things — their style of play, whether they’re a good front man, whether they’re better as a coach, whether they’ve got a good rapport with their own board,” Pleat said yesterday. Yet on that basis…

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